This blog is ostensibly about getting-a-grip in the age of screen fever

It’s way early on a Saturday to be at the laptop and I’ve just watched the Pinot Guy’s presentation for TED.com – he’s telling us to write more, blog more, find time, take your laptop on the bus, do more than your competitors – it’s worked for him. So… if pushing the limits of what can be done in 24 hours is something you have to do daily in onscreen business, then the act of pausing to embrace your hitherto ignored physical existence is as much about accepting limitation as anything else… It means you stop doing what you’re doing, walk away from the computer, and get physical. The very thought doing this right now stresses me out, because if I accept the limitations of time then I won’t get done all the things I want to do. CRAP! I haven’t even looked at trending topics yet… A Creativity Psychotherapist (yeah – still figuring that one) Stephanie Hurst once told me that obsession with do-ing, turns human beings in to human doings. Huh? What is this “being” thing …? How do you get to experience the “being” without the “doing”? If I choose to spend my “being” hunched over a laptop doing keyword analysis then surely the “being” has expressed itself in the “doing” that got done. What about when I am fagging out on the couch with a glass of wine watching The Wire – is that “being”?
Either way The Dark Mistresses big grip-getting year seems unavoidably to be about finding time for fitness. If I am going to get my waist line below the 80 cm’s needed to avoid middle age disaster I’ll be nailing weight-loss goals by jogging at midnight, doing my holistic fitness swim regime in the pool at dawn and meditating in the conference room at lunch time. All this before even opening my Linked In account… it’s a scary thought. So many social networks, so little time.
Yours, The Dark Mistress
The Balance Blog – A reflection on virtual life versus embodied life; ostensibly finding sunshine, holistic fitness, natural weight-loss and stress relief for an obsessed workaholic screen addict, with the occasional dig at the World Wide Web.